Temperature has dropped below zero and water froze.

Trees have stripped off their green leaf clothes and stand naked and still in the weak winter sunshine. Compared with the summer time, winter obviously lacks greenness everywhere in the north, just leaving the color of dull yellow.

These days we have already waved goodbye to the year of 2006. Looking back over the past time, what did I do? And looking ahead, what is my new year’s resolution? Sometimes these days I am kind really thinking about it. The New Year hasn’t brought me a good mood. Simply due to the cloudy, snowy and foggy weather? Probably a bit.

My students are always confronted with the same conditions as before. Little has changed to them in their schoolwork. Let me put like this: Assign them some homework, and they could drive you mad by making tremendous mistakes. Worse still, they just copy the others’ answers to fool you. Actually they are deceiving themselves. They are not stupid and they know this inside out, but it’s like a habit they have early formed and they are just not able to quit such silly things.

This morning I was told just upon my arrival at the school that two guys were listening sneakily to MP3 in last night’s self-study lessons and finally they got caught. I became furious and took the quickest measure to punish them by making them standing outside the classroom in the corridor. It was cold in the morning and the corridor was facing to the north, even colder here. I am not a bad man, even I can say myself such a kind one in my nature. I just meant to warn others against following the bad example. I had planned to let them stand there for the whole day, but it was really chilly and one guy started to sneeze and at last I called them in after the third lesson.

Hope this could work effectively.

This afternoon it is getting a little warmer than the morning. And I really expect at the bottom of my heart that things can change.